RAPID: Addressing the Challenges of Increasing Interest in Computing at the Undergraduate Level through Institutional Transformation

麦基-梅隆大学提议让计算机科学（CS）教育的领导者重新想象CS的教学方式，以应对21世纪的挑战。许多CS部门目前正面临着本科招生人数的显着增加，大部分增长可能是由于学生谁感兴趣的不仅仅是CS，但在CS与其他计算学科相结合。随着国家努力增加K-12年级的计算和计算思维的获得，这一趋势可能会加速。拟议的项目包括一个为期2天的研讨会，将汇集100名CS教育专家，包括研究型大学，文科和少数民族服务学院，社区学院，沿着专业计算组织和领先的行业合作伙伴。它将集中在一些关键问题，试图了解在各种类型的大学和地区不断增长的招生压力，需要继续努力，以增加计算的多样性，计算教育界的准备，以拥抱制度的变化，可能，例如，提供多个和/或多学科的途径，通过他们的计划，以及是否是时候召开一次规模更大的计算机科学教育领导者峰会，开始制定一个本科阶段广泛而持续的变革路线图。

Carnegie-Mellon University proposes to engage leaders in computer science (CS) education in re-imagining the way CS is taught in response to 21st Century Challenges. Many CS departments are currently facing significant increases in undergraduate enrollment and much of the growth may be attributable to students who are interested not just in CS, but in CS combined with other computing-enabled disciplines. This trend could well accelerate as the national effort to increase access to computing and computational thinking in grades K-12 gains traction.The proposed project includes a 2-day workshop that will bring together 100 CS education experts from various colleges including research universities, liberal arts and minority-serving colleges, and community colleges, along with professional computing organizations and leading industry partners. It will focus on a number of key questions that seek to understand growing enrollment pressures in various types of colleges and regions, the need to continue efforts to increase diversity in computing, the readiness of the computing education community to embrace institutional changes that might, for example, provide multiple and/or multi-disciplinary pathways through their programs, and whether it is time for a larger summit of CS education leaders to start to develop a roadmap for broad and sustained change at the undergraduate level.